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Here's an excellent article called Inside Myspace by David F. Carr. It traces the steps MySpace had to go through as they grew from a small website to a social network with technology that needs to handle almost 40 billion page requests a month. The article Read More

I just found out from Scott Guthrie's blog that ASP.Net AJAX 1.0 has just shipped. There's been talk about Atlas and CTP versions of this thing floating around for some time now, but it's nice to see the final version shipping and so much industry support. Read More

So, the iPhone has hit the market and looks like the gadget to have. There has been lots of talk as to what it could look like (check out the iPhone Concept Blog) but we finally get to feast our eyes on the real thing! So, what does it consist of? Well, Read More

So, last night I tried to the The Venice Project Beta to work, but ran into a Vista-related issue (software conflict). It was stuck in my mind, so this morning I woke up early to figure out what the problem was before I went to work. So, first Read More

Excellent post on MarketingProfs talking about the benefits, and also the pitfalls of marketing yourself or your company on MySpace. Stephan Spencer talks about some notable failures like Blockbuster UK, 7Eleven, and Meijer as well as some outstanding Read More

Just checking my email and noticed I've been approved for The Venice Project's Beta-Testing Program. It's pretty exciting stuff. If you haven't heard about The Venice Project, it's a project being developed by the team behind Skype aiming to change the Read More